Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:42:18PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 04:31:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I self-inflicted this by installing [unattended-upgrades] so many years ago?
> 
> It's a dependency of some/most(?) desktop environments, I think.  I
> doubt you installed it by name and forgot.

I do not have it installed on my recently-install Debian 12 / GNOME
desktop.

I do have packagekit though, which includes this config file:

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit 
// THIS FILE IS USED TO INFORM PACKAGEKIT THAT THE UPDATE-INFO MIGHT HAVE CHANGED

// Whenever dpkg is called we might have different updates
// i.e. if an user removes a package that had an update
DPkg::Post-Invoke {
"/usr/bin/test -e /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service && /usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path /org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update > /dev/null; /bin/echo > /dev/null";
};

// When APT's cache is updated (i.e. apt-cache update)
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success {
"/usr/bin/test -e /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service && /usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path /org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update > /dev/null; /bin/echo > /dev/null";
};

So I think probably that unattended-upgrades is downloading Stefan's packages
and then poking packagekit over DBUS to make the GNOME tell Stefan about it.
Which also explains the warning when packagekit is disabled.

Thanks,
Andy

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